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Victim's family: 'pleased' with Knox conviction

3 hours, 51 minutes ago

(AP) The murder conviction of American student Amanda Knox brings a measure of justice for her slain roommate Meredith Kercher but is no cause for celebration, Kercher's family said Saturday.In their first comments since Knox was convicted late Friday, the victim's relatives said that they are pleased with the 26-year sentence ...

Asia

Little resistance on day 2 of US-Afghan offensive

3 hours, 53 minutes ago

(AP) U.S. Marines and Afghan troops have killed at least seven Taliban fighters during the first U.S.-led offensive since President Barack Obama announced a new American war plan this week, Afghan officials said Saturday.American and Afghan troops have met little resistance since Operation Cobra's Anger was launched Friday to disrupt Taliban ...

Latin America

Brazil signals recognition of Honduran election

4 hours, 14 minutes ago

(AP) A top Brazilian official has signaled that Latin America's largest nation may recognize the Honduran candidate who won last weekend's post-coup presidential election.Dilma Rousseff is chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Rousseff says the Central American country's Nov. 29 election should be considered separately from ...

Asia

Opposition scores gains in Taiwan local elections

4 hours, 41 minutes ago

(AP) Taiwan's pro-independence opposition put in a strong showing in local elections Saturday, clawing its way back to respectability after two crushing defeats.With almost all the votes counted, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party held onto its three county magistracy positions _ equivalent to governors in the United States _ and won ...

Europe and Russia

Russian nightclub fire kills 109; many crushed

5 hours, 27 minutes ago

(AP) A blaze sparked by onstage fireworks tore through a nightclub ceiling covered in twigs and plastic sheeting early Saturday, killing at least 109 people and critically injuring about 90 in Russia's deadliest fire since the fall of the Soviet Union, witnesses and officials said.Many victims died in a panicked crush ...

Asia

Indian leader to attend Copenhagen climate talks

5 hours, 29 minutes ago

(AP) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen, an spokesman said Sunday, ending days of speculation about the country's level of representation at the landmark conference.Singh will address the U.N. summit during his two-day visit beginning Dec. 17, said Muthu Kumar, a spokesman in the ...

Pakistani court postpones Mumbai attack trial

5 hours, 29 minutes ago

(AP) The trial of seven Pakistani men accused of involvement in last year's Mumbai terrorist attacks was postponed by a week Saturday after the defense failed to appear in court as part of a daylong lawyers' strike, an attorney said.The defense lawyers stayed away as part of a work stoppage to ...

Middle East

A lost son returns to Iraq killing fields

5 hours, 50 minutes ago

(AP) Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran. They wondered: Could this be their son who was just an infant in 1988 and somehow lived through a deadly chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's regime?There was absolute silence as the judge announced the lab ...

Asia

Opposition scores gains in Taiwanese poll

6 hours, 17 minutes ago

Europe and Russia

Deathtoll in Russian nightclub fire reaches 109

6 hours, 39 minutes ago

(AP) Russia's top investigative body says the number of people who died in a nightclub fire in the Urals city of Perm has risen to 109.The Investigative Committee says 98 died on the spot and 11 others later died in hospitals.The victims crushed each other to death and suffocated after the ...

Asia

Protesters rampage in Nepal after 3 die in clashes

6 hours, 41 minutes ago

(AP) Hundreds of protesters torched vehicles and vandalized shops in western Nepal on Saturday after three people died in clashes between police and illegal forest settlers, a human rights group said, amid heightened political tensions in the Himalayan nation.Nepal's Human Rights Commission urged the government to immediately investigate the violence that ...

Middle East

Egypt official: No one missing in boat collision

7 hours, 2 minutes ago

(AP) An Egyptian official says it appears nobody drowned after two passenger boats collided on the Nile.The official said the search was continuing Saturday but rescuers have not found any bodies and police are not reporting anybody missing. The official works in the Beheira province governor's office. He asked that his ...

Asia

Philippines arrests clan chief, declares emergency

7 hours, 4 minutes ago

(AP) The Philippine president imposed martial law Saturday on a southern province and security forces detained the patriarch of a powerful clan and three of his sons, accusing them of massacring 57 people and fomenting a rebellion.President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was accused of overreacting by invoking emergency powers in response to ...

Philippines arrests clan leader in massacre probe

7 hours, 29 minutes ago

Africa

Junta VP returns to Guinea after leader airlifted

7 hours, 30 minutes ago

(AP) The No. 2 of Guinea's military junta returned to the country overnight, helping fill a dangerous power vacuum after the president was shot by his top aide and evacuated for emergency treatment, a government spokesman said Saturday.Gen. Sekouba Konate, one of the vice presidents of Guinea's junta and its minister ...